Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the Northern and Southern kingdoms as we pick up in First Kings chapter 14 verse 20 and

now with today's message here's pastor Chuck.

So now we're going to start bouncing back and forth from the Northern Kingdom to the Southern

Kingdom.

So you're going to have to watch and I'll try to bring the changes for you so that you know

when you're in the North and you know when you're in the south.

So meanwhile, back at the ranch in Judah, in Jerusalem, the descendant of Solomon, Reaubon, in the Southern Kingdom.

He was 41 years old, he reined for 17 years.

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed above

all that their fathers had done.

For they began to build high places and images and groves on every high hill under every green tree.

And there were also sodomites in the land

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